The Political Consequences of Thinking

Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt

Univ of New York PressApplies the perspectives of gender and ethnicity in a feminist analysis of the Eichmann controversy and offers a wholly new interpretation of Arendt's work, from Eichmann in Jerusalem to The Life of the Mind.

Book NewsNew interpretations of Arendt's work, from Eichmann in Jerusalem to The Life of the Mind , investigate the extent to which Arendt's identity as a Jewish woman influenced both her thought and its reception. Moving from a feminist analysis of the Eichmann controversy to a discussion of Jewish themes in Arendt's major theoretical works, the author demonstrates that Arendt's most sustained philosophical work was influenced as much by her Jewish heritage as by her German education. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.